11 Invisible Woman: Rape as a Chivalric Necessity in Medieval Romance

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction A Light Thrown upon Darkness: Writing about Medieval British Sexuality 1
4. 1 ‘Open manslaughter and bold bawdry’: Male Sexuality as a Cause of Disruption in Malory’s Morte Darthur 13
5. 2 Erotic (Subject) Positions in Chaucer’s Merchant’s Tale 27
6. 3 Enter the Bedroom : Managing Space for the Erotic in Middle English Romance 39
7. 4 ‘Naked as a nedyll’: The Eroticism of Malory’s Elaine 55
8. 5 ‘How love and I togedre met’: Gower, Amans and the Lessons of Venus in the Confessio Amantis 69
9. 6 ‘Bogeysliche as a boye’: Performing Sexuality in William of Palerne 85
10. 7 Fairy Lovers: Sexuality, Order and Narrative in Medieval Romance 99
11. 8 Text as Stone: Desire, Sex, and the Figurative Hermaphrodite in the Ordinal and Compound of Alchemy 111
12. 9 Animality, Sexuality and the Abject in Three of Dunbar’s Satirical Poems 127
13. 10 The Awful Passion of Pandarus 147
14. 11 Invisible Woman: Rape as a Chivalric Necessity in Medieval Romance 161
15. Notes on the Contributors 181
16. Index 183